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    278 notices op books.

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    Lette Samuel r to Ladie Gregory s in , A...

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    Journal of the Workhouse Visiting Societ...

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    1. Thirteenth Annual Announcement Of The...

    Blackweil of long * and fearful ' us suffering would alleviate which . the or cure presence while of we a Dr know . Elizabeth also of

    among , those to whom the temporary residence of this distinguished woman 1 uswith the friendlhelp she extendedis a landmark on

    the among road to , restored health of y which the sufferers had , before despaired . God speed the day when we in England shall have a Female

    Medical College—our Drs . Blackwell and Zakrzewska .

    278 Notices Op Books.

    278 notices op books .

    Lette Samuel R To Ladie Gregory S In , A...

    Lette Samuel r to Ladie Gregory s in A favor . M . M of . D Female . Secretary _JPJiysic of ians the for New their Eng own land Sex Female , by

    Medical College . , , , We wish this letter could be reprinted and widely disseminated

    is bring to among based gain * home the their to ladies sow to attention their the of seed individual Great to of Britain the a revolution consciences important , for we which are facts the sure shall truth it that discloses _exclude upon it needs the which , and male onl to it y

    , practitioner of obstetrics from and the the ly diseases ing-in-chamb of women er—and and hand children over to the the science duly

    trained and qualified female physician . We can give but one extract here—but it speaks volumes .

    medical " The embarrassment often occasions and increas nervous e the agitation duration which and even severity the of sig suffering ht of the

    calamity and consequentl man which sometimes y the peril Happens to the to mother the parturient and infant woman . There termed is a fearful eral ,

    , pp tendent convulsions of the . Out Dublin of 16 I / y , 416 ing-in labors -Hosp under ital , one the patient care of in Dr 54 . 7 Collins was attacked , superin in - 903 in statistics collected Churchill

    th this way . Out case of 96 of , convulsions presented in 609 In Madame Boivin by Dr ' s . ( late - ,

    femme ere was en chef one of the _JMaison des Accouchemens . at Paris , ) 20 , 000 , and sage more casesless than one xmtient in 1000 was afflicted with this alarming disorder .

    ten " Dr , . Mei those gs states of women that in of th seventeen eir first confinement cases of convulsions DrCollin in s his states practice that

    their of nineteen were first children cases . recorded Of thirty by -six Dr . b Josep y Dr . lVIerriman Clarke , sixteen . , twenty . were -eig females ht were with first nine first childrenThese facts

    in children connexion . Of thirty with b the y himself circumstance , twenty- that in were the extended . practice of ,

    Madame hould have Boivin due a wei much ht in smaller recommendin proportional the number more very natural of such and cases safe occurred admini- , g

    _stration s of females in g these offices . " Medical authors are not agreed as to the exciting causes of these

    attacksbut these statistics point to the solution of this fatal and sterious , disease in the grievous shock to female delicacy caused

    by my the presence and attendance of a male practitioner . A presence which in many well-authenticated case * Dr . Gregory shows to have

    been fatal to the patient .

    Journal Of The Workhouse Visiting Societ...

    Journal of the Workhouse Visiting Society . November , 1860 . This number containsamong other excellent mattera paper

    on Workhouse Inmates , by Miss Twining , read at the meeting , of

    the National Association for the- Promotion of Social Science , at

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1860, page 278, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121860/page/62/